garter
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When mice invaded his house, he didn’t poison them but enlisted the help of a garter snake he found outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Unfortunately, the giant garter snake is becoming a casualty of California’s brutal cycle of droughts and habitat destruction — as much of the Central Valley converts to agriculture or infrastructure development, according to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
For the first time, researchers — employing an innovative twist on the mirror test — have found evidence that garter snakes can distinguish themselves from others, using not sight but scent.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
“You heard me. A garter snake. Just a little one. Cut out.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Men could wear blouses and shirts on the outside, while women could do away with their corsets, stockings, and garters.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
Elasticized waistbands, knee-high socks and garters, painted a picture of comfortable chic.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
"When I think now of a Victorian woman lacing up her corset, tying her garters and buttoning her dress, I think of a woman dressing sensibly for a hard day of work ahead."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
Where in the world besides Far Rockaway would anyone think to dress for the beach as Nikki Sneakers had, in calf-high black leather boots, a black cover-up and ornamental black leather garters?
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2012
Then black stockings, rolled over garters, down to her high-topped, year-round Sunday-and-funeral shoes.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
